Dinner
‘I’ve got us a TV dinner, followed by a Facebook dinner, followed by a Twitter dinner, followed by a. . . ’
The Spectator
Thursday
Signal
‘Part of the constitution… they’re allowed to make just one smoke signal each.’
Cave 2
‘We all draw crap on our walls but he has to make such a big deal of it!’
Floor Crossing
Man Flu
Man flu season
Coo
‘There’s been a coo.’
Push Harder
‘Push! Push! Push harder!’
Big Bank
Easier
‘They’re much easier to get than they used to be.’
Latin Lover
‘You’re not really the Latin lover I was looking for.’
Sniff
Landline
‘I’m not saying he’s old but he still uses a land-line.’
Dinosaur 2
‘Climate change? Not in our lifetime.’
Spectator letters: In defence of the GMC and Ukip members, and how Rachmaninov spelled Rachmaninov
Nothing to fear Sir: So long as we are not breaking any law, we have nothing to fear from the police being able to access our mobiles (‘Licence to snoop’, 11 October). They, however, would be committing a crime if they released any information so gleaned to anyone except to the judiciary if we are
David Cameron’s not the only one in trouble over morris dancing
Dirty dancing David Cameron was accused of causing racial offence by posing with blacked-up Morris dancers, though it was pointed out that the tradition dates from 16th-century jobless labourers covering their faces with soot. Other Morris dancer controversies: — In 2011 the Slubbing Billys were thrown out of a pub in Durham for breaking a
Portrait of the week | 16 October 2014
Home Checks began at British airports for passengers who might have come from west Africa with Ebola fever (even though there are no direct flights from the countries most affected). People who rang 111 with suspicious symptoms were to be asked whether they’d come from a high-risk country. Police arrested three men and three women
If Turkey turns on the West, what hope is there for Syria and Iraq?
Turkey has long been a bridge between the West and the Middle East. Its record on free speech may be lamentable and it treats its Kurdish minority shoddily, but against that stands a genuine will to improve its human rights record and an ambition to become a modern, free and prosperous state. This has long
Books and arts – 16 October 2014
Tell you what Mrs Clooney. If Greece repays its $240 billion EU loan, we’ll return the Marbles
Hollywood has a reputation for creating trite storylines in which either a lawyer is cast as the hero or England as the villain. Its latest epic has both, and this one is reality. Little more than a week after her marriage to George Clooney, the world’s most photographed barrister, Amal Alamuddin -Clooney, has flown off
